TERA Hub Launch Manager
About The Position
The Division of Research and Innovation is hiring a full-time, 12-month professional faculty member to serve as the TERA Hub Launch Manager. The position provides specialized startup support for newly funded, large, complex, and multi-institutional research awards, helping teams move quickly from award notification to project execution. As part of the Transdisciplinary, Translational, and Engaged Research Advancement (TERA) Solutions Hub, the Launch Manager coordinates project launch activities such as team formation, planning, hiring, onboarding, procurement, partner engagement, documentation, communications, compliance processes, and operational readiness. The manager maintains a portfolio of 3–5 concurrent projects, generally supporting each for 3–12 months, and establishes the systems, administrative and fiscal structures, and relationships needed for a successful launch before transitioning responsibilities to permanent project staff or long-term project managers. The position develops and maintains processes and procedures for timely project workflows, collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to support compliance, and contributes to the development, assessment, and capacity building of TERA Hub services. The role typically requires in-person presence, although a hybrid or remote work agreement with occasional travel may be considered. A flexible schedule may be arranged with the employee and supervisor. Occasional evening or weekend work and limited in-state or out-of-state travel may be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and one year of progressively responsible professional experience in operational leadership, research administration, facilitating industry and community partnerships, higher education operations, or a related environment.
- Two years of professional experience coordinating complex projects, programs, strategic initiatives, or research activities.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple priorities, expectations, and needs simultaneously.
- Ability to work effectively with internal and external partners from a variety of backgrounds, with a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing equitable engagement in teams.
- Experience developing project plans, timelines, monitoring systems, and reports.
- Ability to work independently while coordinating across multiple organizational units.
- Strong organizational skills, including the ability to be proactive, prioritize work across multiple projects, and meet deadlines.
- Ability to interpret, explain, and implement complex information.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills and strong attention to detail.
- Ability to make independent decisions and recommendations aligned with policies and act as a resource to a wide variety of constituents.
- Successful completion of a criminal history check and determination of position qualification; incumbents must self-report convictions. Those in youth programs may have additional criminal history checks every 24 months.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
- Five years of professional experience coordinating complex projects, programs, strategic initiatives, or research activities.
- Experience supporting federally funded research and/or infrastructure programs and projects.
- Experience facilitating collaboration among diverse partners, including industry, government, nonprofit, tribal, and community groups.
- Experience in higher education, research administration, research development, sponsored programs administration, or project management.
- Experience supporting multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or community-engaged initiatives.
- Knowledge of federal funding agencies and sponsored project requirements.
- Experience coordinating hiring, procurement processes, budget management, or project operations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as primary launch coordinator for newly funded, large, complex, and multi-institutional research awards; develop startup and implementation plans.
- Develop and maintain project timelines, milestones, governance structures, communication plans, tracking systems, and project management tools.
- Coordinate hiring, onboarding, procurement, contracting, labor distribution, documentation, compliance, reporting systems, and access to facilities and research infrastructure.
- Coordinate project kickoff meetings, team onboarding, partner engagement, team alignment, and the transition of responsibilities to permanent project personnel.
- Work with Principal Investigators, the Division of Research and Innovation, colleges, administrative units, and institutional partners to identify and address barriers to project launch and execution.
- Coordinate communications and collaboration among faculty, staff, students, community partners, industry, government agencies, sponsors, and collaborating institutions; facilitate meetings, workshops, project reviews, and partnership discussions.
- Help teams establish shared goals, communication structures, roles, governance practices, and collaborative ways of working.
- Contribute to TERA Hub tools, templates, workflows, and best practices; document lessons learned; support assessment and professional development; contribute to training; and assist with metrics, case studies, and reports demonstrating the impact of TERA Launch services.
- Maintain a portfolio of multiple concurrent awards and establish systems, administrative and fiscal management structures, and relationships needed for project success before handoff.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
